Starring Ben Nelson as Slovakia

“It’s less about what the spending’s about,” Nelson said. “[The] point is, it’s raising taxes to engage in more spending in Washington. That’s not what people back home want. They want to see the cuts, and we’re not seeing any cuts.”

Deficit hawks get flustered when the mainstream of the Democratic Party actually passes legislation with long-term deficit reduction. Apparently the goal of spending cuts isn’t reducing the deficit, it’s cutting spending because that’s what the “people back home want” (though the polls don’t always agree).